Trying out the anti- fingerprinting feature in Firefox Nightly. If you'd like to test it out too, visit about:config and enable "privacy.resistFingerprinting".
You'll start seeing prompts like this!
More info: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Fingerprinting & https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=967895
@deutrino @peter @torgo
May I highlight this fundamental issue, from that discussion:
"... any study that lumps browser vendor and version differences into its analysis of the fingerprintability of a population is largely useless for evaluating either attacks or defenses. Unfortunately, this includes popular large-scale studies such as Panopticlick and Am I Unique."
@mikebabb @torgo It has been in Nightly for a while now - I see @torgo posted about it back in October: https://twitter.com/torgo/status/925012062497013761 So could be worth a check if it's there in Beta/Dev? (I can try soon). (Or we could ask someone in the FF team). The flag for it is there in the stable version already too, but it doesn't seem to have the UI for it yet.
Looks like the anti-fingerprinting feature arrived in the Release version of Firefox with the v58 update this week 👍
@peter @torgo
This is a fascinating and disturbing list of the 24 distinct vectors for browser #fingerprinting being examined by the #Tor project: https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#fingerprinting-linkability 😬
#tracking #privacy #adtech #surveillance #surveillancecapitalism #infosec #security #anonymity